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• Support to Renewable Energy Directive

  The scheme for translating soil types into IPCC classes is presented “Figure 3A.5.4 Classification scheme for mineral soil types based on World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) classification” (IPCC, 2006). ...
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• Livre Le sol vivant - J. Gobat, M. Aragno, W. Mathey - Bases de ...

  ... de décomposition, la micromorphologie des sols, l'échantillonnage de la faune ou encore la classification des formes d'humus et des sols, avec une présentation plus approfondie de la WRB (World Reference Base for Soil Resources). ...
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• Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine | Full text ...

  Several studies have addressed the Maya soil corpus per se but only in small areas [12-14,17,22-24,29-33], and very few have attempted to compare the Maya soil nomenclature with the World Reference Base for Soil Resources [13,14]. ...
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• Soil Atlas of Africa

  Introduction; Soils of Africa (descriptive with photographs and a minimum of technical language), including correlation between the major soil classification systems in use in Africa and the World Reference Base for Soil Resources, ...
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• The 4th European Summer School on Soil Survey

  4th European Summer School on Soil Survey, Soil Portal, Land Management Unit, Soil functions and threats , Salinisation, Soil compaction, Soil sealing, World Reference Base for Soils Resources, WRB.
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• First Soil Atlas of Northern Circumpolar Region above latitude of ...

  Information on the major soil types is presented in detail on twenty six map plates (the atlas has an A3 page size giving a dramatic A2 spread for maps). In a novel exercise, the World Reference Base for Soil Resources has been used as ...
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• Soils of the European Union

  The Scientific Committee of the European Soil Bureau decided to use both the World Reference Base for Soil Resources. (WRB; FAO 1998), as recommended by the International Union of Soil Sciences, and the FAO 1990 Soil Legend (FAO ...
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• Google Earth KMZ files for European Soil Database

  First soil adjective code of the STU from the World Reference Base (WRB) for Soil Resources. WRB-ADJ2. Second soil adjective code of the STU from the World Reference Base (WRB) for Soil Resources. WRB-LEV1. Soil reference group code of ...
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